MrMike (11-18-2019)
Last edited by DGUtley; 11-18-2019 at 03:29 PM.
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MrMike (11-18-2019)
My mother's ancestors appear to have gone through a couple of stages of marrying cousins prior to the 18th century. It appears to have occurred in order to keep it "all in the family" for some Scottish Clans or to contain power within one Irish/Welsh family. Based on what I have come across, it only happened with ancestors that would be considered nobility or royalty, and not with commoners. I am descended in like a dozen different lines from Robert the Bruce, for example.
It makes sense, considering that anyone with a claim to a title is dangerous. Limiting it by keeping marriages within a family seems like a fairly logical solution, except we are well aware why it does not work biologically/genetically.
it seems some animals have a natural avoidance of incest built in,,which makes sense as to limit the likelihood of genetic aberrations...
Do wild animals avoid incest? | Questions | Naked Scientists
https://www.thenakedscientists.com › articles › do-wild-animals-avoid-incest
Feb 13, 2011 - And male hyenas will only move to new groups of females to breed. So they've got a sort of social setup which helps to avoid incest.
Toober (11-18-2019)
Speaking of obsessions, this gets very, very old.
Is it possible to discuss human biocultural diversity without politics and the left's $#@! obsession with equality? We're different. It is what it is.He argued that while some people, including white nationalists, tend to interpret any scientific study about concrete differences between cultures as evidence of Western superiority, this study should instead point to the randomness of differences between peoples. “There’s really nothing special, to start with, about Europe, except that the church creates this obsession,” Schulz said. “This could have happened with other places around the world. It’s just more or less coincidence this happened in Europe.”
Anyway, while true of cousin marriage this does not appear to be true of monogamy. The RCC likely solidified existing custom.
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HawkTheSlayer (11-18-2019)
Basically. While individuals can indeed vary significantly, aggregate differences between cultures can still be identified. This used to be the basis for things like sociology and anthropology, but apparently, only certain differences are allowed to be mentioned now.
It's similar to how biological differences are clearly present between men and women, but we're only allowed to mention certain ones of those.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Rationalist (11-18-2019)